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GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION I-ILED JAN.2.1909.

Patented Aug. 25, 191i r r WW5 FIG.3.

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G.A.RMENT-STAY.

To all whom itmag concern: I

, Be it known that I, DAVID SCHULER, a resident of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment stays or stiffeners, and more particularly to stays for corsets and the like formed from wire.

The object of the invention is to produce a stay or stiffener for corsets and other garments which will take the place of a whalebone and which is constructed of wire bent to shape and in a manner that it may be bent laterally or edgewise, or even twisted and which possesses a high degree of flexibility and elasticity and which cannot readily be broken or take a permanent bend or set.

The invention consists of a stay or structure as hereinafter described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a face view of the stay formed from a single wire; Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the same; and Fig. 8 is a face view showing a modification formed of two wires.

In Fig. l the stay is formed from a continuous piece of spring wire 1 bent laterally back and forth to form a series of loops or eyes 2 which are arranged diagonally across the face of the stay, thus forming a flat structure of wire composed of a series of loops or eyes with the wire forming the same extending diagonally across the width of the stay. As shown in Fig. l the loops or eyes are circular at their outer closed ends and taper toward their open ends, but with the closed ends sufliciently wide so that each side of each loop or eye overlaps the side of the adjoining loop or eye. Conse quently each loop or eye is in position to take a bearing on both sides on the adjacent loops or eyes so that when the stay is bent flatwise the loops or eyes bear on each other and thus transfer the stresses from any given loop or eye to the adjacent loop or eye, and cause the stay to bend on a large circle, and preventing the bending stresses from concentrating at any point or few points and overcoming the tendency of the metal to crystallize. The consequence is that a stay so formed does not readily break.

By having the loops or eyes extending diagonally across the width of the stay I Specification of Letters Patent.

CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

utilize both the torsional and the bending strength or the wire, the transversely extending portions or crossings of the wire, such asIthe-parts 4., when the stay is bent flatwise being placed under torsion by reason of their transverse trend and also bemg sub ected to a bending movement by PatentedyAug. 25,1914. Application filed January 2, 1909. SeriaLNo. 470,508. i

reason of their longitudinal trend. The result is that the stay possesses a very high degree of elasticity and stiffness for the size of the wire employed, so that it is possible to form a stay having the required elasticity and stiffness from comparatively light wire.

In order to increase the rigidity of the stay, and particularly to make it more rigid when bending in one direction than in the other, the intermediate portions of the wire are deflected from the plane of the stay, as indicated at 6, Fig. 2, or in other words the stay is slightly concaved 011 one side. This gives the stay a greater rigidity against bending toward the convex side than toward the concave side and peculiarly adapts the stay for garment stiffener-s in which the bending stresses are mostly outwardly, so that it is only necessary to place the concave side inwardly to secure considerably greater rigidity against outward bending movements which are the ones to be resisted, than toward bending in the opposite direction.

Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the stay is composed of two wires instead of a single one, every other loop, such as those marked 7, being formed in one wire, while the alternate loops 7 are formed in the other wire. Each loop, however, has its sides overlapping the two adjoining loops, exactly as in Fig. 1, the only difference being that instead of having the several loops in succession formed in one wire, they are alternately formed in different wires. The same effect against bending stresses is obtained in this case as in the form shown in Fig. 1. This form also is slightly concaved transversely. l

A tip 8 will be applied to the ends of the stay to give finish, and the stay will be inserted in the garment in the usual fabric casing or pocket.

What I claim is:

1. A garment stay consisting of wire bent to form a series of oppositely disposed loops or eyes forming the edges of the stay and having the connecting portions extending diagonally across the stay, all said connect- I ing port ons being inclined in the same direction with reference to the longitudinal axis of the stay, and each side of each l op overlapping the adjacent loop.

2. A garment stay consisting of wire bent to form a series of oppositely disposed loops forming the edges of the stay and with the connecting portions extending diagonally across the stay, all said connecting portions being inclined, in the same direction with reference to the longitudinal axis of the stay and being bent to concave the stay on one side, each side of each loop overlapping 1 an, adjacent loop.

3, A garment stay consisting of wire bent to-form a series of oppositely disposed loops or eyes forming the edges of the stay and having the connecting portions extending diagonally across. the stay, all said connecting portions being inclined in the same direction with relation to the longitudinal axis of the stay, each side of each loop overlapping the adjacent loop, and said wire having no crossing or contacting portions other than these due to such overlapping.

4. A Wire garment stay, formed of a single wire, bent in alternately progressive loops, each extending laterally entirely across the width of the stay, and disposed at an acute or oblique angle to the longitudinal axis of the stay, substantially as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

DAVID SCHULER.

Witnesses J. H. Penman,- C. STAFF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained to: five cents each by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I), C. 

